Special launch offer: $1 per minute making!

Milan-based fabber Vectorealism has launched a laser cutting and engraving service using Ponoko. It means, from today, if you’re based in Italy, you have access to local making and shipping rates through your Ponoko personal factory.

This development also opens up the Italian market for creators around the world. Items can now be produced in Milan and shipped locally, reducing the cost – and environmental impact – of long-distance shipping to Italy.

Just $1 per minute making

To celebrate the launch, everyone who uses the coupon code 3DDA3K to make something in Italy before midnight Monday May 31^st 2010, will only pay $1 per minute (instead of $2.50 per minute).

Killing the cost of shipping

Vectorealism is the second digital making company to launch in Europe using our making system. Berlin-based Formulor launched its making hub in February this year. These services are in addition to our own making hubs in San Francisco and Wellington – not to mention the emergence of more than 150 fabbers using our system through 100kGarages.

Shipping company costs have been the number one barrier to people pushing the ‘go’ button to make their designs real, from anywhere. Each making hub added to our network lowers this cost for a new group of creators because the design can be transported digitally to a nearby making hub, to be made and shipped locally. In this case, Vectorealism will enable lower shipping costs within Italy, and to some other EU destinations.

For example, here are the savings on shipping a P1 size of 3mm thick plastic sheet of material (in USD):

To Italy …

from New Zealand: $71.50

from USA: $63.90

from Germany: $22.49

from Italy: $16.23

So now you can choose to get your products made and delivered from Ponoko hubs in the USA and New Zealand or from independent hubs in Germany and Italy.

Remember, as an independent fabricator, Vectorealism has its own pricing, materials catalog and terms of business. So based on these factors, you can choose whether you want your products delivered from the USA, New Zealand, Germany or Italy.

Want to get making in Italy?

Log in here now and follow your nose to change your making hub to Vectorealism in Italy. You’ll find the changes to accommodate the new hub are fairly self-explanatory.

We will make another post soon though explaining the changes in detail and how to get your stuff made and sent from Milan, Italy!

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